Design Leadership Jobs
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Senior UX Designer (all genders)
🇩🇪 Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Armedangels - Social Fashion Company Gmbh 🇩🇪 Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
The Senior UX Designer will strategically own the user experience of the webshop by analyzing complex customer journeys, identifying friction points, and developing data-driven UX strategies to improve conversion and loyalty. This involves designing complex user flows, supporting A/B tests, refining UI components, and representing design decisions to stakeholders across various departments.
Senior Product Designer 1year contract
🇬🇧 Bristol, City of Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Just Eat Takeaway.com 🇬🇧 Bristol, City of Bristol, England, United Kingdom
The Senior Product Designer will work across the entire product lifecycle, from concept to delivery, focusing on understanding user problems and delivering engaging, efficient, and user-friendly solutions for partner and internal user websites. This involves creating wireframes, prototypes, and pixel-perfect UI, utilizing both qualitative and quantitative data to influence design decisions and monitor product performance.
Senior Product Designer
🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Storytel 🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
The Senior Product Designer will own the end-to-end user experience, translating insights into evidence-based design decisions and crafting high-quality, accessible UI aligned with the Design System. This role involves close collaboration with Product and Engineering to shape, build, and ship impactful solutions while ensuring strong design execution during implementation.
Senior Product Designer- Sovereign AI
🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
Dream 🇮🇱 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv Subdistrict, Israel
The Senior Product Designer will own the design vision for the Sovereign AI division, establishing design standards and evolving the design system from the ground up. Responsibilities include developing deep fluency in user workflows, designing for high-stakes, mission-critical analytical systems, and driving the full design lifecycle from concept to iteration.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Woodbridge Township, NJ 07095, United States of America
Colliers International 🇺🇸 Woodbridge Township, NJ 07095, United States of America
The main role involves providing leadership and direction on design, layout, and production of marketing deliverables, focusing on branding and campaign solutions for high-profile properties and new business pursuits. Responsibilities include designing and producing visual marketing materials like proposals, presentations, brochures, and supporting client engagement projects from concept to completion.
Senior Graphic Designer
🇳🇿 Christchurch, Christchurch City, New Zealand
Trimble Inc. 🇳🇿 Christchurch, Christchurch City, New Zealand
The Senior Graphic Designer will spearhead the conceptualization and design of high-quality print and digital materials aimed at inspiring and informing global audiences. This role also involves leading creative brainstorming sessions and mentoring junior designers to foster innovation.
Graphic Designer - Chinese Speaker
🇲🇾 Malaysia
Exinity 🇲🇾 Malaysia
The Senior Designer will lead the design and execution of creative assets for the Asia market across digital, print, and motion, focusing on translating complex financial concepts into clear, engaging, and compliant visuals. Key duties include collaborating with regional teams, ensuring adherence to brand and regulatory standards, and adapting global concepts for local markets.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Zen Educate 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
The role involves working across the full product lifecycle, from discovery through delivery, focusing on user outcomes, speed of learning, and design quality. Responsibilities also include mentoring other designers, evolving design culture, and shaping organizational scaling.
Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇪🇪 Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia)
Veriff Remote (🇪🇪 Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia)
The Senior Product Designer will lead the direction of product initiatives, driving execution and shipping impactful solutions by facilitating workshops and taking ideas from conception to compelling experiences through flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs. They will also generate insights via research and data analysis to advocate for customer needs and support implementation with engineering.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 North Carolina, United States of America
Ensora Health 🇺🇸 North Carolina, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will lead design strategy and execution for complex, cross-functional product initiatives, translating customer insights into scalable and elegant design solutions. This role involves conducting advanced user research, championing accessibility, and evolving the enterprise design system.
Senior Product Designer, Experience (Social Core)
🌍 Remote
Vrchat 🌍 Remote
The Senior Product Designer will lead end-to-end product design for social core experiences, including connecting with friends, group discovery, and events, while setting clear team direction in ambiguous spaces. They will drive cross-platform design across VR, desktop, mobile, and web, establishing reusable interaction patterns and contributing to the UI design system.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Permitflow 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The role involves deeply learning construction permitting processes and identifying opportunities for UX and visual improvements within the PermitFlow application. Responsibilities also include leading end-to-end design projects, contributing to product strategy, and establishing design-centric processes.
Designer sénior d'expérience utilisateur / Senior Product Designer
Remote (🇨🇦 Quebec, Canada)
Goto Remote (🇨🇦 Quebec, Canada)
The Senior User Experience Designer will collaborate closely with product development and management partners to design comprehensive experiences, creating everything from initial concepts to detailed service blueprints. This role involves leading design reviews, incorporating user feedback and data to inform strategic direction, and leveraging cutting-edge AI tools to create innovative, user-centric solutions.
Sr. UX Designer - Onsite, Springfield, MO
🇺🇸 Springfield, Missouri, United States of America
Bass Pro Shops 🇺🇸 Springfield, Missouri, United States of America
The Senior UX Designer is responsible for improving the usability of digital products through research, testing, and user-centered design methodologies, leading design solutions for key projects. This role also involves leading the creation and governance of design systems and pattern libraries for Bass Pro, Cabela’s, and White River Marine Group.
EverPro - Senior UX Designer, Web
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Evercommerce Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The Senior UX Designer will lead the evolution of web experiences for the EverPro brand portfolio, crafting high-performing marketing websites that drive measurable business impact. Key duties include defining optimization opportunities, leading research and testing, designing high-impact UX solutions, and shaping web standards by integrating emerging AI methodologies.
About Design Leadership careers
Design leaders in 2026 set the strategic vision for design organizations navigating an AI-saturated market. This role requires a balance of craft expertise and high-level business acumen to advocate for design's value at the executive level.
Effective leaders foster a culture of technical agency, establishing systems that allow human creativity and machine efficiency to coexist.
Companies like Stripe and Airbnb seek VPs and Directors of Design who can scale teams and align design strategy with long-term business objectives.
We feature senior leadership positions including Design Directors, Heads of Design, VP of Design, Chief Design Officers, and design team leads at companies like Meta, Google, Airbnb, Stripe, and fast-growing AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. These roles span product design, brand, and cross-functional design organizations.
Many companies offer remote design leadership roles, including distributed-first companies like Notion, Linear, GitLab, and Vercel. AI companies like Midjourney and Anthropic also hire remote design leaders. Some companies prefer hybrid arrangements for VP+ positions.
Most positions require 8–15+ years of design experience with 3–5+ years managing teams. Strong candidates demonstrate strategic thinking, team building, stakeholder management, and a track record of shipping successful products at companies like Figma, Spotify, Netflix, or emerging AI startups. Browse leadership portfolios to see how experienced designers showcase their impact.
Design leadership salaries are highly competitive: Design Directors earn $160k–$240k, VPs of Design $220k–$350k+, and CDOs at major companies can exceed $400k with significant equity packages. AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Databricks often offer premium total compensation. Consult our salary guide for detailed breakdowns.